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Crawling the Web for Common Crawl Crawling the Web for Sebastian Nagel [email protected] [email protected] Apache Big Data Europe 2016 About Me computational linguist software developer, search and data matching since 2016 crawl engineer at Common Crawl Apache Nutch user since 2008, committer and PMC since 2012 1 We’re a non-profit that makes web data accessible to anyone • founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz • lower the barrier to “the web as a dataset” • running your own large-scale crawl is expensive and challenging • innovation occurs by using the data, rarely through new collection methods 2 Crawled Data Data published on AWS S3 as Public Data Set • released for free “without additional intellectual property restrictions” • 1.4 PiB of crawl archives back to 2008 • since 2014 monthly sample snapshots of the web, every snapshot about 2 billion pages or 50 TiB of data • HTML pages (small percentage of other document formats) • for data mining, data and web science, natural language processing, prototyping, testing, etc. • URL index for all crawl archives since 2012: API and index files 3 Crawled Data Dedicated datasets (since August/September 2016) • robots.txt files/responses • “content-less” server responses: redirects, 404s, etc. • articles and pages from news sites 4 News Crawl • monthly crawl schedule not well-adapted to the news genre • continuously release freshly crawled data • incorporate new seeds quickly and efficiently • based on StormCrawler running on Apache Storm • test and evaluate a different crawler architecture with constant/ongoing use of hardware • at present, 50,000 pages daily, but we want to get 100,000s 5 What makes us most excited? Experiments! Use the data! Run your experiments! • generate value from the data • including scientific work • analytics: servers, libraries, metadata, tracking, vulnerabilities, document formats • web graph analysis • extraction and aggregation: tables, RDFa, Microdata • Natural Language Processing • … and share your experience! Write a blog post, a paper, … 6 What makes us most excited? … Derived Datasets! Processing Terabytes of web archives is still not trivial, create derived datasets with single focus on … • Web Data Commons • hyperlink web graph • semantic web triples from RDFa, microformats, microdata • tables from web pages, relations from is-a-phrases • N-gram counts and language models for statistical machine translation • GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation (word2vec) • C4Corpus: Multilingual Web-Size Corpus with Free License • detect pages with Creative Commons license marker • extracted text and remove boilerplate 7 Format of the Crawl Archives WARC (Web ARChive) • HTTP request and response headers • payload (HTML or binary) • metadata: date, IP address, etc. • in short: HTTP traffic between crawler and web servers WAT (1/3rd size of WARC) • HTML meta data • HTTP header fields • extracted links WET (1/10th size of WARC) • extracted plain text 8 WARC in Detail WARC is a sustainable format • ISO standard since 2009 • wrappers for many programming languages (Python, Java, Go, R, …) • if not, it’s easy to read: text header + payload, usually gzipped 9 WARC in Detail Random access WARC archives • gzip spec allows multiple deflate blocks • each WARC record compressed in a single block (10% larger than full gzip) • allows to pull out single documents by file offset • index server / memento / wayback machine 10 Accessing WARC File by Index Query the URL index for the ApacheCon EU web page in 2013: % curl -XGET 'http://index.commoncrawl.org/CC-MAIN-2013-20-index?url=apachecon.eu&output=json' {"urlkey": "eu,apachecon)/", "timestamp": "20130519081324", "status": "200", "url": "http://www.apachecon.eu/", "filename": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696400149/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092640-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "length": "6033", "mime": "text/html", "offset": "318480812", "digest": "A3MAVLQNZD3NSLJSXD5TPEXSMQQNJL2T"} 11 Accessing WARC File by Index …and get the WARC record by filename, offset and length: % curl -s -r318480812-$((318480812+6033-1)) \ "https://commoncrawl.s3.amazonaws.com/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696400149/warc/\ CC-MAIN-20130516092640-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz" | gzip -dc WARC/1.0 WARC-Type: response WARC-Date: 2013-05-19T08:13:24Z Content-Length: 25891 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 08:13:23 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-us"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>ApacheCon Europe 2012 | Welcome</title> 12 Accessing WARC File by Index …another option to get the desired content out of the archive: http://index.commoncrawl.org/CC-MAIN-2013-20/http://www.apachecon.eu/ 13 Challenge Yourself There’s an amazing dataset at your fingertips, and getting started has never been simpler! We provide Hadoop MapReduce examples and libraries to crunch the crawl archives for • Java • Python (based on mrjob) … or use examples and code from our users 14 Challenge Yourself - Example Analyzing Web Domain Vulnerability (Sietse T. Au and Wing Lung Ngai, 2014) 15 Challenge Yourself - Robots.txt Dataset Web server name sent in HTTP response header HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:32:52 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a PHP/4.4.8 ... • could process WARC files • or WAT (better because less data) • or robots.txt dataset • robots.txt fetched once or few times per server • quite small • get an approximation of unique server counts 16 Challenge Yourself - Robots.txt Dataset - Simple Approach aws s3 cp s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/robotstxt.paths.gz . zcat robotstxt.paths.gz \ | while read path; do aws s3 cp s3://commoncrawl/$path - \ | gunzip \ | perl -lne 'print $1 if m/^Server:\s*(.+?)\s*$/i' done \ | sort --compress-program=gzip \ | uniq -c \ | sort -k1,1nr \ >server_counts.txt.gz … will run about 12 hours on a small AWS EC2 instance 17 Challenge Yourself - Robots.txt Dataset - MapReduce on EMR import re from mrcc import CCJob class ServerCount(CCJob): def process_record(self, record): if record['WARC-Type'] != 'response': return # we're only interested in the HTTP responses for line in record.payload: match = re.match('^server:\s*(.+)$', line, re.I) if match: yield match.group(1).strip(), 1 return elif line.strip() == '': # empty line indicates end of HTTP response header yield '(no server in HTTP header)', 1 return if __name__ == '__main__': ServerCount.run() 18 Challenge Yourself - Robots.txt Dataset - MapReduce on EMR Setup and configuration git clone https://github.com/commoncrawl/cc-mrjob cd cc-mrjob pip install -r requirements.txt # edit configuration in mrjob.conf python server_count_warc.py -r emr --conf-path mrjob.conf robotstxt.paths.gz 19 Challenge Yourself - Server Counts count % server name 53777944 25.8 Apache 27882022 13.4 nginx 16199473 7.8 GSE 9451948 4.5 (no server in HTTP header) 9439349 4.5 Microsoft-IIS/7.5 7077091 3.4 cloudflare-nginx 7001670 3.4 nginx/1.10.2 6131570 2.9 Microsoft-IIS/8.5 3363401 1.6 Apache/2 3214835 1.5 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 2917288 1.4 Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) 2282076 1.1 LiteSpeed 2183608 1.0 Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) 2113086 1.0 Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) 2019900 1.0 Microsoft-IIS/8.0 1856272 0.9 nginx/1.10.1 1847059 0.9 Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) 1729729 0.8 Apache/2.2.31 (Unix) 1665280 0.8 Microsoft-IIS/7.0 1240475 0.6 Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) 20 Crawling sample crawls, not a comprehensive crawl 21 Historic Crawler until 2012, commoncrawl-crawler.git, Ahad Rana • Java, Hadoop, batch processing • periodically • export crawl archives • update web graph and crawl database • generate fetch lists 22 Apache Nutch since 2013 we use blekko seed donations from end 2012 until early 2015 • what’s nice: only care about how to crawl, not what to crawl • focus on crawler development and operations • Nutch used as a scalable distributed and polite fetcher • not bound to a specific hardware setup • runs on a cluster of AWS EC2 spot instances • what’s bad: without ongoing seed donations both freshness and coverage of the data drop over time 23 Crawl Archives size of released crawl archives: TiB Year 8 2008 4 2009 25 2010 110 2012 85 2013 475 2014 400 2015 350 2016 (November) 24 Crawl Archives - Size since 2013 25 Crawl Archives - Cumulative Size 26 Why URL Frontier Discovery Matters cumulative size of crawls from 2013 to 2016 • 55 billion fetched pages • 7.5 billion unique URLs • 45 billion unique content (by MD5 of “raw” binary content) why it’s difficult? • there are many many outlinks • a lot of duplicates and spam at present, we rely on • seed donations • sitemaps 27 Crawl Archives - Host, Domain, TLD 28 Nutch Monthly Crawls - Cloud Setup • CrawlDb (URLs with status information) persistent on S3: 1 TiB for 10 billion records • Hadoop cluster (Cloudera CDH) on AWS EC2 spot instances • small jobs (max. few hours): 100 batches or “segments” • upload data to AWS S3 on completion to minimize data loss in case of spot instance termination • automated job launch and control by a shell script 29 Apache Nutch - Fetching • avg. 1.5 TiB / hour or 7,000 pages / sec. • 100 overlapping jobs • 400 map tasks fetching • limits on max. fetch time (2 hours) and min. throughput • qeuing per host for politeness • dominated by long and short queues, too few mid-size queues 30 Politeness be polite and • respect robots.txt (exclusions and delays) • limit load on crawled servers, guaranteed delay between fetches from the same host implement host-level blocking on task-level (in JVM) • all URLs must be in the same partition (fetch task) • if locality is guaranteed, these are no bottlenecks: • DNS resolution • robots.txt fetching, parsing, caching • only 10³ robots rules per fetch task: cache in memory politeness and performance are not in contradiction! 31 Crawler vs.
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